Abstract: Eto Mamoru was born in 1883, and was a native of Taketa City, Ōita prefecture in Japan. He graduated from Kōbe First Middle
School and Nihon Taiiku Daigaku. He fought in the Russo-Japanese War from 1904-05. He was an instructor at Kwansei Gakuin
Daigaku from 1914-17 then came to the United States in 1917 to study physical education. He was employed as an agricultural
laborer, farmer, and gardener before becoming a Christian lay minister of the First Japanese Nazarene Church in Pasadena,
California. He was interned at Gila River, Arizona during World War II. Afterwards he was officially ordained as a Nazarene
Church minister in 1946, and lived in Seabrook and Bridgeton, New Jersey from 1944-80 and finally settled in California from
1980-92. In 1990 he was one of the first Issei recipients of wartime reparation. The collection consists of diaries (1918-20,1976-89),
incoming correspondence files, religious records and notes, and personal memorabilia, including tapes of Sunday sermons by
the Reverend Eto Mamoru. Portions of the collection are in Japanese.

Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Department of Special Collections.

Los Angeles, California 90095-1575

Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.

Eto Mamoru was born in 1883, and was a native of Taketa City, Ōita prefecture in Japan; graduated from Kōbe First Middle School
and Nihon Taiiku Daigaku; fought in Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05; was baptized as a Christian in Japan; instructor, Kwansei
Gakuin Daigaku, 1914-17; came to the United States in 1917 to study physical education; was employed as an agricultural laborer,
farmer, and gardener before becoming a Christian lay minister of the First Japanese Nazarene Church in Pasadena, California;
was interned at Gila River, Arizona during World War II; officially ordained as a Nazarene Church minister in 1946, and lived
in Seabrook and Bridgeton, New Jersey from 1944-80; was naturalized in 1955; lived in California, 1980-92; became one of the
first Issei recipients of wartime reparation, in 1990; he died in 1992.

Additional Biographical Narrative

Note

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indicates Japanese characters included in the print version of this online finding aid, available for consultation at the
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections.

Collection consists of diaries (1918-20,1976-89), incoming correspondence files, religious records and notes, and personal
memorabilia, including tapes of Sunday sermons by the Reverend Eto Mamoru. Correspondence includes letters in English from
Mamoru's children, and letters in Japanese from Issei Christian friends and associates, as well as from immediate family members
living in Japan.

Portions of the collection are in Japanese.

Extended Scope and Content

The Eto Papers consist of diaries, 1918-1920, 1976-1989; incoming correspondence files, 1916-1991; religious records and notes;
and personal memorabilia, including tapes of Sunday sermons. The incoming correspondence files include miscellaneous Japanese
letters from Issei Christian friends and associates, English letters from Eto Mamoru's sons and daughters, and many Japanese
letters from the following immediate family members living in Japan:

Eto Tsutomu [characters], younger brother of Mamoru

Eto Mitaka [characters], wife

Eto Katsuyoshi [characters], son

Tada Yujiro [characters], younger brother of Kura

Tada Yoshie [characters], wife

Tada Akiko [characters], daughter

Tada Yuichi [characters], son

Goto Hisaka [characters], younger sister of Mamoru

Goto Yoshio [characters], husband

Goto Iwao [characters], son

Goto Kenji [characters], son

Goto Hitoshi [characters], son

Organization and Arrangement

Arranged in the following series:

Diaries (1918-20,1976-89) (Boxes 1-3).

Incoming correspondence files (Boxes 4-6).

Religious records (Boxes 7-9).

Personal memorabilia (Boxes 10-15).

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.